What two numbers multiply to -585 and add up to -584?

Here we answer the question: "What two numbers multiply to -585 and add up to -584?"

The answer to your question is:

-585 and 1

Below we illustrate and prove that -585 and 1 multiply to -585 and add up to -584:

-585 × 1 = -585
-585 + 1 = -584

Are you asking because you are trying to figure out how to factor the following quadratic equation?

x² - 584x - 585 = 0

If so, the solution to factor the quadratic equation above is:

(x - 585 ) (x + 1)

To summarize, since -585 and 1 multiply to -585 and add up -584, you know that the following is true:

x² - 584x - 585 = (x - 585 ) (x + 1)

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